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General Resources

AmosWEB
An exceptional site containing a wealth of materials designed for introductory economics students. These resources include: a glossary of economic terms, an online testing system, Extra Credit: A Lesson in Economics an online fantasy adventure story designed to illustrate basic economic concepts, and A Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy (a nontechnical discussion of economic concepts).

The Dismal Scientist
This site contains current and historical statistics for a variety of U.S. economic indicators. Economic forecasts, regional economic data, and discussion of current economic issues also can be found here.

Economic Report of the President, 1997-present
This document contains information and statistics about the recent state of the economy. The current administration's microeconomic and macroeconomic policy objectives and programs are also discussed in this document.

Economics in the News
This site, created and maintained by Mike Moffatt, contains an annotated description (with links) to online newspaper, magazine, and other articles that contain substantial economic content.

Economics Challenge
This site provides information about a competition for students in high-school economics courses. Multiple-choice questions from past exams are posted at this site.

Financial market information
This page contains links to information about stock, bond, and other financial markets.

Government sites on the web
This page contains a set of links to federal and state government web pages.

Interviews with well-known economists
A collection of online interviews provided by the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

JokEc
This site appears to be the internet's largest collection of economics related jokes.

Jokes about Economics or Economists
Another good collection of economics related jokes.

Nobel Prize Winners in Economics
Brittanica.com provides this list of Nobel Laureates in Economics and a description of the research that resulted in their selection. More information can also be found at the Nobel page.

Not the Final Exam
An interesting history of economics thought trivia game.

Resources for Economists
This is a hypertext version of William Goffe's current guide to economic resources on the internet. This is one of the world's largest collections of economic links (with brief descriptions of each resource).

Resources for Teaching Economics

Classroom Expernomics
This online newsletter contains information about classroom economic experiments.

The Journal of Economic Education
This journal is devoted to the analysis of economic pedagogy. The full text of recent issues is now available online. In addition to studies of the effectiveness of curricular innovations, this journal also contains studies of other issues of interest to academic economists (such as changes in economics enrollments).

EcEdWeb
A collection of links to economic education resources provided by Kim Sosin of the University of Nebraska at Omaha Center for Economic Education.

Syllabits - Economics
A collection of links to online syllabi and other web resources for economics courses.

World Lecture Hall - Economics
A growing collection of links to online syllabi and other web resources for economics instruction.

TCH-ECON listserv
To subscribe to this listserv devoted to a discussion of economics teaching, send an e-mail message containing the single line:
subscribe tch-econ

in the main body of an e-mail message addressed to: majordomo@majordomo.elon.edu

TCH-ECON archives
This site contains an indexed archive of past discussions on the TCH-ECON mailing list.

Other Faculty Resources

Economic Associations on the Web
A collection of links to web sites of economic associations. Most of these contain information about conferences sponsored by the associations.

Economic Journals on the Web
An extensive list of web sites for economics (and related) journals.

Locating economists, economics departments, colleges, and universities
A collection of links to sites that make it easy to locate and contact other economists.

Resources for Economists
This is a hypertext version of William Goffe's superb guide to economic resources on the internet. This is one of the world's largest collections of economic links (with brief descriptions of each resource).

Internet Resources for Economists
Another collection of links to economics resources on the internet.